It is a crowning misfortune for Green Gable, however, that the volcanic upheaval ages ago also stopped upheaving at a moment when this fell was in a position completely subservient to a massive neighbour, and so fashioned the summit that is forever destined to look up into the pillared crags of Great Gable as a suppliant before a temple.

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Green and Great Gable at the head of the Ennerdale valley from Innominate Tarn, Hay Stacks.